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Senior Engineering Director

About ProbablyMonsters™ Studios

Established in 2016, ProbablyMonsters is a next generation independent game company that creates long-lasting studios and exceptional games. Revolutionizing the way AAA game studios are built, ProbablyMonsters provides its teams the resources and creative environment needed to foster stable, rewarding, and life-long careers while delivering best-in-class entertainment through a positive people-first culture.
We have built three studios so far. Each of them has a unique identity built around the type of gamer experience they are creating. Knit together inside the ProbablyMonsters family culture, all studios are bonded by the core values of respect, trust, accountability, and approachability.
Connected by the company’s mission to unite, guide, and empower developers to create exceptional entertainment experiences, developers are given the confidence, security, and stability to create and ship their games free of distractions.

Our Incubation Team focuses on prototyping new ideas, new game concepts, new franchises, and the incubation of new studios with the ambitious vision to create genre defining games for the next generation of players. This is one of those unique opportunities that only happen once in a lifetime.

The Role

One of our unannounced game teams is searching for a Senior Engineering Director to build our engineering team and lead all our technical efforts into a cohesive whole. This role is primarily about helping world-class developers from different disciplines work better together through shared technical standards, unified strategy, better teamwork, and sense of purpose. As a member of both team & project leadership, this person is responsible for helping the entire team stay people-centered, accountable toward our goals, and a genuinely fun place to work.

Who You Are

• You are a world-class leader of technical efforts in games with a focus on helping people grow
• You are exceptional at developing, collaborating on, & driving a project technical roadmap for "AAA" games
• As a leader, you see ‘people’ in every choice we make, be it our players, partners, or teammates
• You are fiercely passionate about games and what they mean to our players
• You are an outstanding reviewer of technical work against project goals and can help others see what’s truly important
• You are exceptional at arbitrating difficult trade-offs between disciplines and helping everyone buy-in to your decisions
• Your technical direction is exceptionally consistent, rigorous, reliable, and well-articulated
• You go the extra mile to make sure not only do people understand goals but that they’re excited about them
• You have a depth of knowledge in most game development disciplines and can effectively judge how our technology can better serve their needs
• You thrive working on leadership teams and know how to effectively advocate for the needs of your people
• You work hard to disconfirm your own assumptions and take extra time to understand views you don't understand or disagree with

What You Will Do

• Build & manage a diverse team with a people growth-centric ethos where teammates with varying perspectives are encouraged to identify and propose improvements
• Rally the team around a technology roadmap that is informed by broad expertise & considerations
• Partner with stakeholders to establish clear priorities and define expectations that translate into a scope of work that the team can effectively deliver on
• Create & maintain technical standards for the entire team, including documentation & depot
• As a member of team leadership, advise on cultural, existential, & major strategic issues
• Source new technology solutions to modernize our technology and infrastructure
• Help our other leaders develop better coaching & people development skills
• Take a teammate out to lunch to see how they’re doing
• Get your hands dirty and write some code!

Qualifications

• Experience in a technical role within game development
• Successfully hired & led an engineering team within ‘AAA’ games
• Significant experience working inside a multidisciplinary game leadership team

Bonus Points

• Unreal engine experience
• Competitive multiplayer experience
• 'Games as a service' experience
• IP incubation experience

Our Commitment To You

• A people-first culture founded on respect, trust, approachability, and accountability.
• A stable home that values your potential, deeply cares about your work-life balance, and is committed to investing in your craft and long-term career.
• Competitive benefits package including health and family benefits, employee assistance program, flexible and paid time off, financial benefits and professional and personal development.